From Sun Architecture Critic Edward Gunts ...

 "Green design" is a popular concept in architecture these days, but for many people the phrase suggests a limited number of strategies for saving energy and protecting the natural environment, such as planting "green roofs" to limit stormwater runoff and using construction materials made from renewable resources.
  A provocative new exhibit at the Maryland Institute College of Art shows that green design strategies don't have to be confined to ideas that have made their way to the architectural mainstream. 
 Anxious Climate: Architecture at the Edge of Environment features the work of three European firms that have come up with new ways to combine architecture and environment, and in the process blur the lines between society and nature. A plant-covered power generator that becomes a nesting place for birds and butterflies. A street lamp that harnesses moon beams to light the city at night. Buildings with the musculature of an elephant and skins made of mosquitoes. A house whose rooms automatically change temperature based on how clothed or unclothed its occupants are.
 The designers are R&Sie of Paris, Philippe Rahm of Lausanne and Paris, and Amid [Cero 9] of Madrid. In each case, they define the problems they want to address and set about to come up with the answers.

Anxious Climate runs through March 9 in the Fox Building's Meyerhoff Gallery, 1303
Mount Royal Ave.